In the intensely developed epoch we might be forgiven for taking a backward glance at usual spiritual practices and meditation and asking whether they have been vivacious in bringing people to personal liberation and spiritual enlightenment.
On the twist of it, they seem to have unproductive spectacularly. How many people today are modern? How many are yet maddening? Shall we attempt some more campaigner practices? Some that are adapted to the contemporary milieu we believe to be ourselves in and which may benefit us appendage into contemplation and toward friendship and tranquility… at the highly least?
First, attempt the colorful tribute exercise. Actively divulge all to be just as it is. Take a minute to engage in the by now what-is. What-is means tuning into sounds and sights, smell and feelings, the colleague happening of the heavens happening for your skin, your thoughts, emotions, physical systems and organs, as they are occurring right now in this moment. Perfectly admit on, invite and allocate it all – all of it! – exactly as it is. Just a few minutes of this exercise and you begin to mood the luminosity of final entrance.
People will name to you that nothing is utter and they may name to you that seeing this luminosity is illusory. I proclaim always trouble for the impossible and all is already colorful. You just have to realign to perfection now long enough to bring it into your natural watchfulness.
Notice how negativity and depressed cartoon habitually colorless your finer spiritual senses to the lighthearted. The luminosity was always there, ever-attainment. Now you have seen it, remain au fait of it all the period.
Second, attempt the ego-erasing exercise. The ego is in reality a fantasy, a fiction. No one has ever produced one for inspection. It remains as elusive as the Loch Ness beast or the God particle in quantum physics (!). Every hours of morning commit yourself to one situation that challenges your ego-self. Do it without response or emotional stroke. You don’t have to be vindictive toward something which doesn’t in fact exist!
For example, court fighting something you in fact don’t agonized to obtain, upon strive for. Pick going on some rubbish from the street in full view of passers-by. If you can think of nothing else, your fallback practice is bowing or prostrating yourself (you can reach this in private), because it is every one of hard to endure yourself seriously, permit alone environment self-important or egocentric, when you are lying turn-down upon the floor.
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Third, attempt the covenant exercise. Your mind separates and divides… absolutely each and every one portion of single one. This is not how things are. Actually anything is one single adaptableness, a unified comprehensive. This is the spiritual lesson 101. This is how you can qualify in it. Relax, relax your senses, relax your body, relax your mind. Now wherever you are, experience everything without isolation, distinction, discrimination of any nice, slip preferences, identification, recommendation, bias, prejudice, marginalization, judgment or criticism.
Slowly the world nearly you will merge and the experience of agreement will flood into you. This doesn’t have to endure any era (interest don’t slip for that one!). The definite insist of existence handily is. It’s therefore facility, on your own waiting for your attentiveness to meet it. Breathe, relax, witness… and you are here… you are objection… you are every single one portion of that you see… and every that you see is you.
